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HAKB ETCBI PAT DAT WAB ^ BOND DAT iip mnm-Mn $oum THE ENTERPRISE OVER 1AL 7Cf FOR VICTORY wit* UNITED STATES WAS BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 68 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, August 27, 1943. ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge Calvin Smith Handles Nine Cases in Recorders Court Are Fine*! In Monday Session for Speeding WitiiuUi experiencing anything like the usual and prolonged sum mer slump, the Martin County Re corder’s Court last Monday handled a fairly large docket on the eve of the marketing season in this section. Brisk business is to be expected in the future. In seasons past, the court during the main summer months hardly ever handled more than five or six cases, and some times it could even skip a session, but for some months now, there have seldom been less than six or eight cases on the docket. Last Monday, Judge J. Calvin! Smith callt d nine cases before a ! fairly large crowd. Proceedings: Ernest Shepard, charged with lar ceny and receiving, pleaded not guilty. After hearing the evidence, the court was of the opinion the de fendant should be charged with a felony and when probable Cause ap peared, the man was bound over to the superior court under bond in the sum of $100. Moses Williams and Shepard, according to one story, were visiting in the home of Louis Brown, colored, near Williamston a short time ago. Shepard declares that 1 they participated in a “crap” game, that Brown flashed a pocketbook with $89 in it. Tired and weary. Brown dropped off to sleep, and Moses Williams, testifying for the State, explained that he slipped the pocketbook from Brown’s pocket and divided with Shepard. It was on that evidence that Williams was hooked for robbery, the court requiring him to furnish bond in the sum of $400 for his appearance in the superior court next month. On the following morning after the alleged robbery took place the night before, Wil liams surrendered the money to Brown. When Shepard denied the theft and division, Brown carried him into the courts. Charged with speeding, Robert Drungo pleaded guilty and was fined $10 and taxed with the cost. Robert Lee Manning, charged with disorderly conduct, failed to appear when called, and papers were issued calling for his arrest. Luther Williams was fined $5 and taxed with the cost in the case charg ing him with exceeding the 35-mile state speed law. George Teer, pleading guilty in the case charging him with speeding, was fined $15 and taxed with the cost. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with drunken driving, Na than Franklin Jarman was fined $50, (Continued on page six) County Schools Open New Term Next Week -a- « Vacation Days Near End For More Than Six Thousand Tots —®— Both While and Colored j Schools Start Term in County Wednesday Vacation days for approximately i 6,000 Martin County children will diaw to a close next week when the j ten white and thirty-four colored schools open the new term. Most of the white schools will hold their formal exercises marking the open ing at 9 o’clock, while all the color ed schools are expected to receive their pupils at 8:30 that morning. Arrangements for opening and op erating the schools are just about complete, a report from the office j of the county superintendent stating that there were only five positions ; ..J. w..iJ..'*WUU*P . MW Aiiil uni sonaiL, ■fri!iiEg'iri,;nr^ - -__ were annqipccd James ville, Fun Life, Bair Wrass, £W etts, Gold FoMMwB ifeMdB. there. are two openings at Hamilton, and one each at Williamston, Roberson ville and Oak City. Contracts are pending in at least two of those cases and school officials declared that regular teachers or substitutes would be on hand next Wednesday in all the schools to greet their lit tle charges. Very few advance instructions have been issued for the opening which will be handled after a more or less informal plan. Books will be distributed and die children will get | their lesson assignments and told to make ready for earnest work the following day—and the days to fol- j low. The schools will complete the j first-day program before or by early j noon. High schol students are asked j to carry $2.40 the first day to care j for book rentals. The first- and sec (Continued on page six) Peanut Growers Will Protest Price System In Washington -0 Peanut growers in Virginia and parts of northeastern North Carolina w:Jl st .d a delegation to Washing ton next Monday to protest the vir tually one price schedules announc ed for the 1943 peanut crop. Brief ly stated, the argument the delega tion is expected to advance is simi lar to the one advanced by North Carolina tobacco growers in Wash ington on Wednesday of this week. Just as the Georgia tobacco grower is marketing his tobacco at less ex pense than the one in the South Car olina and eastern North Carolina belts is doing, it was pointed out at the annual meeting of the Growers Peanut Cooperative here yesterday that the peanut growers to the south are growing and marketing peanuts at an advantage over those in the old sections. It was pointed out at the meeting here yesterday that the two-price system was eliminated at the spec ial request coming mainly from the cld-producing areas after many far mers had declared the government I would not get their oil peanuts, that they would let them stay under the j shelter and rot first. It was also stat i ed that peanut men, including dirt • farmers, had worked out a price | schedule which they considered fait I to all concerned, that any price dif ferential would eliminate the Vir ginia type of nut from the trade which would depend on an expand ed production of Spanish types. It was intimated that a price differen tial would force cleaners in this sec tion out of business. It was also in timated that commercial peanut pro duction, once confined to this part of the country, has now reached to many other states, that only 10 per cent of the commercial crop is pro duced in this area. “And that is something to think about,” one spokesman said. Apparently more interested in to bacco prices just now, the farmers of this immediate section are not send ing a representative to the protest meeting next week, as far as it could be learned. County Labor Board Planning For Action REGISTRATION V__ A special registration for pu pils entering the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades and those in terested in taking special com mercial subjects will be held in the local high school building next Monday and Tuesday, Au gust 30 and 31, Principal D. N. Hix announced today. Pupils entering the ninth grade will not find it necessary to regis ter before the opening on Wed nesday. Tenth grade students will regis ter Monday between the hours of 2 and 6 p. m. Eleventh and twelfth grade students, post graduates and those interested in commercial subjects will reg ister Tuesday between the hours of 8 a. m. and 12 o’clock, noon. Returns Home Following Fong Stay In Hospital -& Suffering a broken hip when kick d by a mule about six or seven weeks ago, Mr. Ephriam Peel, well known county man, was able to re turn to his home in Griffins Town ship today in a Biggs ambulance fol lowing a long stay in a Washington hospital. His condition is much im proved, but he’ll hardly be able to quit his bed in some time. BOND DRIVE Plans for an all-out canvass in support of the Third War Loan Drive in this county will be formulated in a special meeting in the Branch Banking and Trust Company building here to night, Couny Chairman D. V. Clayton announced this morn ing. Next' Wednesday night, the district and community chair me nalong with the canvassers and other interested citizens will meet in the agricultural building or the courthouse to perfect final plans for the all out drive. Martin County is being asked to raise $918,000, and to raise that amount, it will be necessary for every persan in the county to participate in the drive get ting under way on September 9. For Locirf School# “rtd nattnes of twenty-four mem bers of the local school faculty were announced today, the officials stat ing that a contract for a t\ enty-fifth teacher is pending. Names of the faculty: D. N. Hix, principal. High school teachers: Mrs. Jessie H. White, Miss Ann Golden, Miss Doris Leach, Miss Virginia Reynolds, Miss Mildred Watkins, Mrs. Evelyn H. Manning, Miss Ruth Britt. Grammar grade and primary tpacher-s- Mr1-' C. B. Hassell, Miss Mary Whitley, Miss Edythe Bradley, Mrs. Elizabeth (John) Eagles, Mrs. Velma Coburn, Miss Katherine Brad ley, Miss Margaret Elliott, Mrs. Le la Bunting, Miss Ruth Manning, Miss Mary C. Benson, Miss Estelle Craw ford, Miss Grace Talton, Miss Kath ryn Mewborn, Miss Evelyn Baker, Miss Lamina Baker, Miss Frances Turnage. Mobilization Group Is Seeking Survey Of County Unemployed —•— Special Committee Is Subject To Call of Chairman Within Short Time -« Meeting in the county courthouse here yesterday morning, the Martin County Labor Mobilization Board planned to wipe out or reduce to a minimum idleness and vagrancy in this county. It could not be learned when positive action would be tak en, but Hugh G. Horton, chairman of the group, stated that a survey of the unemployed is expected to get underway shortly with the aid of the supporting committee named some time ago, that as soon as the list is partially prepared, the board members would be called into ses sion to take whatever action is nec essary to wipe out idleness. Messrs. H. S. Johnson, Jr., of Ham ilton; J. C. Kirkman, of Jamesville; Miss Mary W. Taylor, T. B. Bran don, H F. McKnigh*, L. C. McLen don, R. L. Perry, of Williamston; H. S Everett, of Robersonville; A. B. Ayers, of Bear Grass, and Oliver Car ter, of Parmele, were present for the meeting. Any member of the board will receive names of unemployed persons, and they will be turned in to tin- board's office, it was explain ed. The supporting committee, named some time ago or on July 5, is asked ed to cooperate by submitting the names of unemployed to the board As far as it could be learned any person is invited to assist in the drive and employers are asked to cooper ate in every way possible. At the meeting, Chairman Horton outlined the work of the board, and explained that under the governor’s emergency powers it was possible to attack idleness and vagrancy. “We want to do everything possible to help the unemployed get jobs, to warn them that vagrancy and idle ness now constitute a violation of the State law. If the idle do not en ter gainful employment, they will be turned over to the covmt> evicts where they will be given jobs,’’ Mr. Horton pointed out. “And the law is for white and colored, rich and poor,” Mr. Horton said, adding that this is no time for anyone to remain idle. Under the new law, everyone be tween the ages of 18 and 55 years, inclusive, are supposed to be gain fully employed. There are those ex ceptions, of course, to care for the disabled and others who are in the services. The law says that those persons subject to the dictates of the law, must be employed at least 35 hours each due to certain conditions for a short while, but when that period ran in (Continued on page six) -»— - Painfully Hurt In Fall On Street Wednesday Mrs. John R. Peel was painfully hurt about her head when she stum bled and fell on Washington Street in front of the Chevrolet place here last Wednesday noon. Treated in the local hospital, she was able to con tinue to her home on East Main Street a short time later, and is get ting along very well. She broke her glasses in the fall. While taking her to the hospital, C. B. Coltrain, home for a visit from Norfolk, struck a small boy on a bicycle, damaging the wheel but not injuring the youth. Mrs. W. H. Edwards Passes In Hospital Early This Morning -# Funeral Service Will B. At home Near Williams Ion Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Annie Taylor Edwards, be loved citizen and mcmDer of a fam ily long prominent in the affairs of this county, died in the local hospital this morning at 12:10 o'clock, follow ing a critical illness of nearly three months’ duration. About a year ago. Mrs. Edwards suffered a slight at tack. but her health improved and she was getting along very well until about three months ago when she entered the hospital where she un derwent a major operation nine weeks ago. Her condition had been critical all the while, but she was a patient sufferer. The daughter of the late Eli and Sarah Virginia Mobley Taylor, she was born at the old Taylor home near Williamston on January 5, 1879, and spent her entire life on the home farm. On December 31, 1902, she was married to William Henry Edwards, who came to this county from Vance for the promotion of tobacco culture. He died several years ago. A member of the Primitive Bap tist Church at Skewarkey for well over a quarter of a century, she was faithful in her religious beliefs, and was held in high esteem by all. Mrs. Edwards was devoted to her home and family, giving willingly and freely of her time for the happiness and welfare of others. She was a good woman and cherished those bas ic ideals that support a good life. She is survived by three children, Mrs. Lyman Johnson, of Rocky Mount, and Messrs. John H. and Sewitt Edwards, of Williamston. One brother, Mr. John Taylor, of Rober sonville, and four sisters, Mrs. J. J. Manning and Mrs. Daisy Purvis, of Williamston; Mrs. B R. Barnhill, of Durham, and Mrs. L. T. Waters, of Wake Forest, also survive her. Funeral services will be conduct ed at the home, near here, Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock by Elders B. S. Cowin and A. B Ayers Inter ment will follow in the family cem etery on the old home farm. -* Mrs. Mamie Raynor Victim Of Hit-Run Driver Late Tuesday -a Five Persons Arrested And Jailed In Connection With Crime Mrs. Mamie Raynor was painful ly but believed not seriously hurt when she was run down by a hit and-run driver on the old Wild Cat Road, a few miles from Spring Green in Popuar Point Township late Tuesday nitf.r.wjgg Treated in a Robersonville doctor’s office, Mrs. Raynor, widow of Lon Raynor who was killed in an automobile accident near Tarboro some time ago, is now able to be up and apparently she is getting along very well. Arthur Council, colored man of near Robersonville and alleged driv er of the car, was arrested along with four others, LeRoy Andrews, Geo. Willie Collier, Zeno Council and William Henry Taylor, and pluc ed in the county jail. He is charged with an assault with a deadly weap on with intent to kill, inflicting seri ous bodily injury, hit and run and drunken driving. He is being held under bond in the sum of $500 for a hearing in the county court next Monday The other four men are ii/JU'vr bond in the sum of $250 each for allegedly aiding and abetting in an assault with a deadly weapon. Carrie Lee Wallace with her three small children, was riding in the car and she is being called into court as a witness. According to Corporal W. S. Hunt of the State Highway Patrol, Mrs. Raynor was walking well to the side of the dirt road almost in front of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Taylor. It is fairly apparent, ac cording to witnesses’ accounts that Council turned his old 1937 model Buiek sedan to the side of the road ft. i‘ '1 V>iii>—iow w T~ wjih knock «eviJ m\ IWML* <«*» to a SSjqjfl 4H»e«,e»«ktngTLe vniUin, Council car, <Nbv« to the ia togptttita - df tlie old William;‘.on Everetfs Road and continued toward Everetts. Just before reaching the town, he turned to the right and was traveling in the‘direction of Spring Green when the engine ran hot and he was forced to stop. Mr. Taylor, seeing what had hap pened, jumped into his car, picked up Ophie Rouse and followed the car until he could gets its number. He notified the patrol and within thirty minutes the arrests were made. The driver of the car denied he had struck any one, but others in the eai admitted they weie tid ing with Council at the time. The group was said to have been returning from a funeral fifteen or twenty miles away, and that several of the party had been drinking, that insulting remarks were made after the woman had been run down. The five*! arrests were about the only one made in the county on the day the markets were opened. Price Average Holding Firm As Sales Pass Million - Pound Mark On Local Tobacco Market Today Red Armies Pushing Nazis Back Toward The Dnieper River —.» — No Startling Activities Are Reported During Lsat Few Hours on Other Fronts —--<$ Other than the bloody push against the Germans toward the Dnieper River, little or no startling activity has been reported on the war fronts during the past few hours. The Al lied Air Forces were content to lay a few mines in enemy waters follow ing their devastating raids on Ber ; his and in ff.i'r. '* appearing that tar gets tn aouVuovn Italy have been thinned out considerably. But where the air force left off, big battlewa gons of the British fleet moved in to shell important bases located in the toe of the Italian boot. Following the devastating raids on Berlin, the Allied Air forces last Wednesday dealt a severe blow to Italy's key air defense center at Foggia, knocking out a large number of planes. Crotone was successfully attacked the night before. Berliners are fleeing their blasted city, the authorities prohibiting the removal of furniture or other articles to make room for the tens of thousands who are moving out in freight trains and by foot. Over in the Pacific area, the tall or Bairoko Harbor on New Georgia Island is expected shortly, and the Allied advance on New Guinea is menacing the Jap air field at Sala maua. On the Eastern Front, the Rus sians have bypassed Poltava in a direct plunge toward the major goal of Kiev, 170 miles away. Elsewhere on the more than 250 mile front extending from below Voroshilovgrad to Sumy, Soviet communiques report continued suc cesses on the 44th day of the Rus sian summer offensive. Southwest of Voroshilovgrad Rus sian troops thrust back two strong counterattacks. The Germans sent fresh reinforcements into battle, but the Red Army widened the wedge they had driven into the Nazi lines. Near l/.yum as well, the Russians report new gains. Patiently and persistently the Red Army drives into the Ukraine, rich in mines and factories and in farm lands, smashing violent counterat tacks, cleaning the woods and hills of the Hitlerites. Hut trio headline concept or tne offensive ‘rolling” forward is erro neous. Tilt* Red Army has not achiev ed a decisive break through at any point. The Germans, continually ro lnl'mred ,are putting up tin most bit ter fight as they retreat. Field Mar shal Fritz von Mannstein, who fail ed to save Marshal von Palms’ army at Stalingrad, apparently learned a lesson there, and was able to extri cate a good percentage of his forces from Kharkov. The Red Army is not “rolling” forward, it is smash ing slowly ahead, over fields and roads strewn with dead Germans and their smashed equipment, but doubtless at considerable cost to it self. On the whole central southern front from Bryansk, where the Rus sians arc* bo low Voroshilovgrad, the Red Army's ad vance in two months of fighting shows penetrations at two points of about 100 miles. Elsewhere progress may be measured in a few miles. Of course, it is not the advance in mileage that counts, but rather the capture of strong points and communications, breakstrough, de struction of the German manpower and material. On Tuesday, the Rus sians disabled 104 German tanks and shot down 95 planes. Yesterday, the Russians killed 2,000 Germans and knocked out 48 tanks. Solid train s of. booty were captured in y has recaptured 5.8(h) square Miles of Ukrainian ten-itory in the summer orFefiSfve td Site. The Reu Army is 'u'lng PMfbtti cently, but it looks as if, without some major diversion in the West, the Wehrmacht will be able to make a fighting retrea* of it until the fall rains bog down the summer of (Continued on page six) Able To Ue Out After Pressure Cooker Accident Mrs. R. L. Coburn is able to be out dftci icicivirig painful bums when a jar of vegetables exploded in her face the early part of last week. Mrs. Coburn was badly burned about her eyes and was said to have barely es caped with her sight. A pressure cooker had been open ed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Den nis Coburn, near Dardens, and she was near the cooker when the jar exploded. IN HOSPITAL Although the cause for his bein gihere is not known here, Lt. William W. (Billy) Biggs, local young man serving with the Paratroopers, continues in a hospital presumably in North Africa, late reports stating that he was getting along fine and that he expected to get out of the hospital in about two more weeks. Local Young Woman Resigns From WA AC -s Resigning from the Woman’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Miss Hennie Gurganus, one of the few young wo men from this county volunteering in the nation's service forces, return ed home this week. When the change was made from the Woman’s Army Auxiliary Corps to the Woman’s Army Corps, resig nations were acceptable. It was point ed out that the rules and regulations existing at the time the volunteers entered the service were changed, that the former WAAC’s had to vol unteer in the WAC’s to continue in the service. Miss Gurganus along with others chose to return to civil ian life. Miss Gurganus, reporting for duty at Daytona Beach, Fla., later was transferred to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where she served until her resignation was accepted last week. Slight Increase In Price for Superior Grades Is Reported ■» Small Block Expected Today Will Hardly Interfere With [Monday Sales The Williamston Tobacco Market, after holding one of its most success ful openings last Tuesday, passed the one million-pound mark today with prices holding firm and sales running smoothly and highly satis factory "Wo are holding well above the 41 -cent average," Sales Super visor Urbin Rogers said this morn ing ,; nd there Is a slight increase in the price for the better types of tobaccos, he added. Selling right at 300,000 pounds last Tuesday, the market sold 263, 000 the following day to clear the block Yesterday, the sales were around 125,000 and today there are an estimated 275,000 pounds or more on the floors. Shortly before noon today, tobacco was still being un loaded rapidly, and it was fairly ap parent that a small block would pos sibly follow. However, the block will hardly be of sufficient size to inter fere to any great extent with the scheduled sales next Monday. And it is possible that the market will not block, after all. Reviewing the selling activities for. the first week, Supervisor Rogers stated that the opening-day sales av eraged $41.64. Prices for the infer ior grades were not quite so strong Wednesday and the average hover ed around 41 cents. The market showed greater strength yesterday with the inferior grades holding to the record levels and with the bet ter grades showing added strength, some prices being listed as high as 47 cents for the first time. The price trend today is equally as strong as it has been at any time this season. Farmers seem to be well satisfied with their sales, but they are still puzzled when it comes to reconcil ing the small difference in the prices paid for the inferior quality grades and those received for the better types. Farmers me offering iheir “tips” in fairly large quantities today, and the smoking types are selling right along with the primings at 41 to 43 cents a pound. The market is attracting new cus yContinued on page six) Peanut Growers From Four Stales Meet Here PRODUCTION QUOTA. The Martin County Red Cross Chapter has Just been assigned a sizable production quota for the next several weeks, it was announced by Mrs. N. C. Green, chairman of the project. The chapter has been urgently requested to make and prepare for delivery the following order: One hundred bedside bags, 100 bed pan covers, 100 he isewives (filled), 200 kit bags (unfilled), 100 wash cloths (knit), and 100 pairs of bedroom mules. The chapter was also assign ed a quota of 288 kit bags (fill ed) for distribution to members of the armed forces leaving for overseas duty. The Red Cross sewing room is open each Tuesday from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., and more people are earnestly requested to at tend and tal^y^rt in the spe Increased Activity Oft Liquor Fronts ■■ ■■ • An increase in activities on the li quor fronts accompanied the open ing of the tobacco markets in this area last Tuesday. While no records were established, sales in the legal stores were greater than they had been in recent weeks, and enforce ment officers reported a busy time on the RFD front. The copper shortage has been ap parent for some time, but it struck home forcibly last Monday afternoon when Officers J. H. Roebuck and Roy Peel found a 50-gallon capacity still made out of tobacco flue iron. “It's the first cf that particular type I have ever seen," Officer Roebuck said, adding that it was expertly made. Found about one mile from (Continued on page six) Former Manager Of i ■ ~ Organization Talks To Annual Meeting DiMHutiMfuctioii Over Price Schedule Voiced During t-oiirthoiixc Sessini Bv LUCIUS BLANCHARD About one hundred persons gath ered in the Martin County court house here yesterday for the annual membership meeting of the Grow ers Peanut Cooperative, Inc., and to hear W. T. Parker, former manager oi the growers association and now chief of the peanut section of the oilseeds division of the Commodity Credit Corporation, who steeled him self to meet an onslaught of ques tions from irate peanut growers of the old producing areas. Among his principal innulni * - ■ ' pro gram and declared that differential should be accomplished between price* (or Virginia type peanuts and -Uie eouth end southwest. Sh'ieMl* 6*d taken ftplMir to i gest thiF,__ erative install t Washington to “Look af£ terests of the growers in the ginia-Carolin area.” “I for one, am tired of the. tail wagging the dog,” Shields asserted. He went on to explain that he refer red to: "Washington telling us what to do and what we can get for eu? crops without first digging down for the facts.” Parker admitted the fact that it costs more to grow Virginia type pea nuts than other types of peanuts, and also admitted that he heard of the dissatisfaction manifest in this sec tion of the producing .area through a meeting of growers held last week 'Continued on page siir)
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